Asia’s submerging markets

The global downturn has started to weigh on Asia's export-dependent emerging markets.

Not long ago, the key worry in emerging Asia was taming inflation. Now it's bolstering growth. As the global outlook has darkened, the export-dependent region's stockmarkets have swooned. The MSCI Asia ex-Japan index has slid to a six-month low.

Emerging Asia's main export markets, Europe, Japan and the US, are shrinking or stagnating. China is also becoming an increasingly important trading partner for the region, with Hong Kong, Singapore and Taiwan earning 20%-25% of their GDP from exports to the Middle Kingdom. The faster-than-expected slowdown there isn't helping.

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